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The Mystery Beyond Matteris a major new work from one of the world's most influential composers and performers, an independent and pioneering spirit who has been at the cutting edge of musical and technical innovation for many decades. The Mystery Beyond Matter is for improvising musicians and sound engineer, live electronics, multi channel audio and unusual venues including radio and internet. In this piece, acoustics are the central theme, not a secondary effect: using real resonant spaces and/or virtual ones generated by a computer program especially written by Nickil Deshpande, the piece opens up acoustic environments for the musicians and the audience to explore. A delicate drone floats endlessly in a rich, complex resonance while fleeting solos of diverse colours come and go, as if flickering figures coalesce out of a nebulous sea of sonorities. "Endless until it stops", this is a piece that suspends time, balancing notes, textures and shades of resonance as if they were parts of a mobile in continuous and gentle motion. The Mystery Beyond Matter was commissioned by and features Ireland's Quiet Music Ensemble.